Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-17
ITALIC ROMANCE.
A MARRIED WOMAN LEAVES %PITrSBURG
WITH ANOTHER FELLOW,
And the Two Come 10 THIS City, Where They are
ArrsSted-Ths Injured Husband Olaimsto
Have Lost 800 and a Wife BY
the Transaction.

the Transaction.
There are several unhappy natives OF
Sunny Italy, one of whom Is a woman In
the city, and they came from Pittsburg.
Two of them are clippers and the third q
friend, all of whom are in durance vile,
while the other is the husband OF one OF
the guilty pair. The story OF their trouble
is quite interesting, and is about rs ioi-
lows:
Yesterday morning Chief of Police Smith
received 4 telegram from Washington Pa
requesting him to arresta man n a Wo-
man of Italian nationality, the latter Of
whom wassmall and was marked by o small
scar on her left thumb. The telegram
was signed Joseph Cannared AMI gave no
further information. Armed with the
yery meagre description, Officer West went
out on the trail of the pair. He inquired
AT the B. & o. depot if any such parties had
gotten of any of the trains yesterday. he
learned that they had not, but a mar and
woman answering the description had ar
rived in the city several days since over
the road.
The officer then wandered up to the
| Italian boarding house at the corner OF
Water and Twelfth street, where he found
a woman whom be suspected to be the one
ne was after. He asked If her husband
was there, and was informed that he was
not. Thinking that if he arrested the
woman alone the man would take
/ fright and skip, he told the excited
and curious Italians that he was looking
for a small girl, and in order TO allay their
suspicious, he left and waited around Ior
the pair to make their appearance.
Shortly after II o'clock he saw the
woman going down Main street, IN CON-
PAW with a male Italian, and when near
the stone bridge he approached them, and
milling the woman's shawl from off her
hand discovered the tell-tale scar. de
then arrested the parties and took them to
the city building. 1t was then learned
that the man was not the one he was after,
but that he had gone down to Bellaire to
await the woman's arrival, and her COM
pauion was o friend who had agreed to
accompany her to that city to meet the
other chap. The woman gave her name
az Rosa Spinelli and the man said his
name was James Paraleni. The two were
locked up, and rs there was no way TO
identify the man they were after, Captain
Smith telegraphed to Cannared that the
parties had been secured, and then await
ed developments. Cannared, who IS q
small, very dark Italian arrived in the city
in the afternoon, accompanied by a friend.
He immediately went to police h~eadquar,
ters and identified the woman as being the
right party and his wife.
About 6. 80 last evening anOthel italian
showed up at the city building and asked
if the woman had been arrested He was
informed that she had been and Captain
Smith asked:
Are you her husband"
yes" answered the unwary Italian.
Then you are just the man we are
After" and into the cooler be went. This
man bears the euphoniOus name Of Rachael
Meolo, and he was y well-dressed, fair,
looking specimen product Ofthe sunny land.
When informed upon what charge he had
been arrested he denied the whole affair,
saving he knew nothing of the matter.
But now we come to the injured husbands
story of the cause of the whole affair,
which was detailed to q REGISTER mar IN
very broken language.
"I have been married seven years" said
he, ''and always treated my wife well, and
have been trying. TO save some money, so
that we could be in easy circumstances
She had access to the money, and l once
noticed that $64 was missing, but allowed
the matter 10 pass 5y, thinking | had made
a mistake. / worked and my wife and
mother-in-law kept bOarders. This man
Meolo boarded at our house, but my
mother-in.law sent him away some time
ago. Last Sunday when | returned home
| found my wife had disappeared, and up
on inquiry l learned she had gone off with
Meolo. | also discovered that all our
savings, amounting TO nearly $500, was
also gone along with $35 which l
was keeping for another bOarder. She also
took some valuable jewelry. | hunted
around Pittsburgh for them for several
DAYS, and at last learned that they had
taken the b. x D. train going towards
Wheeling. / arrived in Washington this
morning and sent out kilograms to various
points, and shortly afteIward / received
the telegram from here and came on the
next train. l intend to prosecute both
parties. About the meanest part of the
whole affair, as far as my wife is concerned,
is that she lett behind her our small girl
baby which is only one year OF age, and it
has been crying ever since"
Cannared went before Justice Davis last
evening and swOre out warrants for the
two and they will probably have a hearing
to-day. He said Rosa Spinnelli is his wite's
maiden name. She is rather a cookbook
ing woman, but cannot manipulate the
English language much better than her
husband, who believes she has the money
hidden away some place. When the pri'
soners were searched, no money was found
upon them, but Paraleni had $40 when he
was searched. The officers went to the
Italian house, but could find no money
and the people there denied having had